To respond to the national high-quality development and the "Dual Carbon" strategy, and promote the quality improvement and upgrading of green productive forces in the Greater Bay Area, the "Exploring Carbon for New Productive Forces - 2025 Greater Bay Area Government-Industry-Academia-Research-Investment-Application Integration Green Technology and Energy Development Forum", co-organized by Huiyuan Cowins Technology Group Co., Ltd. (Stock Code: 01116.HK, hereinafter referred to as "Huiyuan Cowins"), was successfully held on August 28. As a representative enterprise listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that is transitioning from traditional steel manufacturing to smart energy storage, Huiyuan Cowins not only demonstrated the industrialization achievements of phase change energy storage technology at the forum, but also joined hands with multiple forces from the "government, industry, academia, research, investment, and application" to build an efficient collaborative ecosystem and a six-party dialogue and cooperation platform involving the government, enterprises, education, scientific research, finance, and application, providing a practical path for the integrated development of Hong Kong's technological innovation and green economy.


Guests attending the forum included experts and representatives from the political, academic, technological, and business circles. Among them, the officiating guests were Ms. Zhang Manli, Under Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry; Mr. Siu Ka-fai, Chairman of the Liberal Party; and Dr. Wang Chunxin, Deputy Head of the Chief Executive's Policy Unit of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The keynote speakers included Professor Huang Gongsheng from City University of Hong Kong; Professor Zhang Wenwei, Chair Professor & Doctoral Supervisor of Shenzhen Technology University and Vice Chairman of Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Society; Mr. Zhang Zhengguo, Grade II Professor of South China University of Technology and Director of Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for High-Efficiency Thermal Energy Storage and Utilization; Mr. Liang Weiqiang, Associate Vice President (Knowledge Exchange) of Hang Seng University of Hong Kong; Professor Zhou Jiaxian, Co-Director of the Quality Standards and Management Center of Hang Seng University of Hong Kong; Professor He Jianzong, Academician of the European Academy of Natural Sciences and Chair Professor of Environmental and Polar Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong; Dr. Perry Ip, Chairman of Huiyuan Cowins Technology Group Co., Ltd.; Mr. Feng Hongwei, General Manager of Guangzhou Mayer Energy Storage Technology Co., Ltd.; and Mr. Zhu Weipeng, Founder and CEO of Fruit Tree Group.
As a listed company rooted in Hong Kong, Huiyuan Cowins also plans to leverage Hong Kong's advantages as an international financial hub to promote the globalization of green technologies. Dr. Perry Ip proposed at the forum that the company will work with the Hong Kong SAR Government and financial institutions to explore innovative financial instruments such as carbon trading and green bonds, enabling the low-carbon solutions of the Greater Bay Area to enter the global market via Hong Kong. This vision is highly aligned with the initiative put forward by Mr. Siu Ka-fai, Chairman of the Liberal Party. In his speech, Mr. Siu pointed out, "Hong Kong needs to accelerate the implementation of the integration of 'government, industry, academia, research, investment, and application' to make technological innovation the core driver of high-quality development. Huiyuan Cowins' technological practices and capital planning are vivid examples in this direction."


At the forum, participants conducted roundtable discussions on two major topics: "National 'Dual Carbon' Strategy and Green Technology Development Opportunities in the Greater Bay Area - How the Integration of Industry, Academia, Research, Investment, and Application Drives Green Technological Innovation" and "Discussion on Green Energy". The discussions focused on the six-dimensional collaborative mechanism of "government, industry, academia, research, investment, and application" to solve the problem of industrialization of scientific research achievements.




As a benchmark enterprise in the business community promoting green technology, Mr. Feng Hongwei, General Manager of Guangzhou Mayer Energy Storage Technology Co., Ltd. (a subsidiary of Huiyuan Cowins), gave a detailed introduction to the successful cases and energy conservation and emission reduction achievements of phase change energy storage technology in application scenarios such as agriculture, industry, and commerce during the green case sharing session. He presented a number of green projects of the enterprise, including the "Huailai County 'Carbon Neutral' Digital Agricultural Industry Demonstration Base", "Shanxi Orchid Base Solar Heat Collection + Phase Change Heat Storage Greenhouse Energy Supply Project", "Guangzhou Mayer Cold Storage Efficient Computer Room Project", and "Sanya Yazhou Multi-Energy Complementary Zero-Energy Phase Change Intelligent Greenhouse Project".
Among them, the "Huailai County 'Carbon Neutral' Digital Agricultural Industry Demonstration Base" project has achieved remarkable results and become the focus of the industry, with a system energy saving rate exceeding 60%. Relying on the core phase change energy storage technology, the project recovers waste heat from data centers, converts and stores it to supply energy for facility agriculture. It can accurately regulate the crop growth temperature, effectively shorten the crop growth cycle, greatly improve the utilization rate of agricultural land, and further promote the efficient absorption of carbon dioxide by plants, achieving the effect of "negative carbon emissions". This project breaks the limitation of traditional energy being "used and discarded", and successfully creates a model of "turning waste into treasure and promoting green development through negative carbon emissions" for the low-carbon transformation of agriculture.


It is worth noting that Huiyuan Cowins has also achieved remarkable results in its layout in the field of technological R&D. The forum revealed that Guangzhou Mayer Technology Development Co., Ltd. (a subsidiary of Huiyuan Cowins) has jointly established the "Phase Change Energy Storage Technology and Application Laboratory" with South China University of Technology. Relying on the university's scientific research advantages in the field of heat transfer and heat storage, the laboratory effectively improves the energy efficiency level in fields such as industry and construction. At the same time, the company has jointly built a talent training base with Shenzhen Technology University to conduct cooperative R&D on "Key Technologies for Efficient Heat Transfer in Phase Change Energy Storage Processes and Automated Equipment".
At this forum, Huiyuan Cowins' transformation achievements were also highly recognized by the academic community. Professor Zhang Zhengguo, Grade II Professor of South China University of Technology and Director of Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for High-Efficiency Thermal Energy Storage and Utilization, commented: "Phase change energy storage materials can effectively regulate the ambient temperature and reduce energy consumption. Huiyuan Cowins has transformed laboratory technology into practical solutions for agricultural and industrial scenarios, providing a successful corporate model for the implementation of the national 'Dual Carbon' goal."
Professor Zhang Wenwei, Chair Professor & Doctoral Supervisor of Shenzhen Technology University and Vice Chairman of Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Society, also stated: "The project has successfully optimized the energy efficiency conversion in the 'phase change energy storage' process, enabling the 'energy storage units' to achieve the highest heat conversion efficiency."




From its renaming and upgrading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, to the intensive implementation of technological achievements, and then to helping build a green collaborative ecosystem, Huiyuan Cowins is leveraging its three-fold advantages of "technology + capital + scenarios" to occupy a key position in the cultivation of green new-quality productive forces in the Greater Bay Area. As Dr. Perry Ip said in his concluding remarks at the forum, "There are no bystanders in carbon neutrality. Huiyuan Cowins will take Hong Kong as a fulcrum to make phase change energy storage technology a link connecting green production and sustainable development."